Miramichi behind rest of province in seatbelt compliance
The following message is being offered by our District Commander, Staff Sergeant Greg Grant:
During the month of May 2008, District 6 RCMP Miramichi conducted seat belt compliance surveys at several locations throughout and near Blackville, Doaktown, and Sunny Corner. As a result of those surveys, it was noted that approximately 79 per cent (average) of vehicle occupants were wearing their seatbelts on our highways in our district. (That means one out of every five persons were not wearing a seat belt). The provincial seat belt compliance rate is approximately 90 per cent, which means most users of our provincial highways elsewhere are ahead of us in seat belt compliance.
I am instructing our police officers to effect zero tolerance when detecting seat belt non-compliance by vehicle occupants on our district's highways. A seat belt ticket will cost $172.50. Help us to help you stay alive in a collision by wearing your seat belt. Please wear your seat belt! We don't want your money ... we want you to live!
Cst Francis Jacob
Cst "Frank" Jacob came to District 6 RCMP after the completion of his training at Depot Division in Regina. Frank is presently performing traffic duties within the District. Prior to joining the RCMP, Frank resided in Quebec where he studied Police Technology and Natural Sciences. He was also with the Armed Forces (Reserves) His hobbies include anything involving fitness, soccer, music and movies. Frank looks forward to continued service to the citizens of District 6.
Seat belts save lives.
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Signals:
• 162(3) No person shall turn a vehicle at an intersection unless the vehicle is in proper position upon the roadway as required in section 161, or turn a vehicle to enter a private road or driveway, or otherwise turn a vehicle from a direct course or move right or left upon a roadway unless and until such movement can be made with reasonable safety, and no person shall so turn any vehicle without giving an appropriate signal in the manner provided in sections 163 and 164 in the event any other traffic may be affected by such movement.
• 162(4) A signal of intention to turn right or left when required shall be given continuously during not less than the last 30 meters traveled by the vehicle before turning.
• 162(5) No person shall stop or suddenly decrease the speed of a vehicle without first giving an appropriate signal in the manner provided in section 163 or 164 to the driver of any vehicle immediately to the rear when there is opportunity to give such signal.
• 163 Any stop or turn signal when required herein shall be given either by means of the hand and arm or by a signal lamp or lamps or mechanical signal device, but when a vehicle is so constructed or loaded that the distance from the center of the top of the steering post to the left outside limit of the cab, body or load exceeds 60 centimeters or that the distance from the center of the top of the steering post to the rear limit of the body or load of the vehicle, or the last vehicle where more than one vehicle is included in a single combination, exceeds 420 centimeters, then the vehicle shall be equipped with, and the said signals shall be given by such a lamp or lamps or signal device.
In plain language: You must always warn other users of a highway by signaling your intentions to turn or stop (by the signal lights provided by your vehicle) within an appropriate distance from your turn or stop. If you have no operating signal or stop lights, then you must use proper hand signals.
Buckle up — stay alive!
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If you think not wearing seat belts is a problem you should come to Chatham. Stop signs don't mean a thing. Since Miramichi became a city there are no police in Chatham so drivers have become accustomed to "maybe" slowing down at stop signs then pulling out and cuttting off oncoming traffic. I must say that not all drivers are guilty of this. We do have "Traffic Directors". These people decide to rewrite the NB Drivers Handbook. They decide at any given moment to stop and direct traffic, changing the right of way rules, thus making their own and get POed if you don't do as they instruct with their waving fingers and arms. If we had police in unmarked cars they could have a field day and make their quotas in the mean time. For the rest of us that try to follow the rules as they are written, Good Luck.
Keep your foot close to the brake! JB